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the smell of still wet pavement. is all the comfort you get.
the road was rough. gaping holes into the earth. exposed piping. water. sewage. tunnels. everything that ran through it.
was visible. the smell of sulfur and other chemicals seeping up through the ground.
then it was scratched and ripped to shreds and gravel. the surface. or what was left. groped and dragged and destroyed.
and now it smells like still wet pavement.
everything that didn't make it out in time is forever cemented beneath the earth.
inside. enclosed. encased.
forever.
hesitation. will cause asphyxiation.